Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-07-16
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n. IserAbie In Phil sdeiphia North American.
Are you In good health, and are you beipg
wary Of the fearful dangers OF the present
season Now don't think an starting out /
to write up patent medicine advertisement.
l am just rejecting upon what 1t is necessary |
to do In these days to preserve ones health. |
Fun not hankering to be . centenArian, but l |
want 10 live ut least through the present
summer. The difficulty IL to decide whether
II is best to eat nothing and live - long ~
possible on the present accumulation Of fat
being poisoned within week.
To eat or not to eat, that Ia the, l have
been spending sotnO time over in New York
recently, but was driven away. Think Of II
In the last three months DR.. Edson and his
assistants in the sanitary bureau have seized
1881 pounds Of bad meat Well, l wasn't
scared so much about that, ~ meat doesn't
have much attraction for me In the summer,
anyhow. But that wasn't all, nor the worst
They seized 26' $50 pounds Of rottenly poison
Gus tsh. How many more thousands Of
pounds OF the same material have been
cooked up into tishbals by the New York
restaurants l didn't try to guess, but
stopped eating fish. They have too many bones
In them to pick out IN hot weather, anyhow.
Fruit aud vegetables are probably the best
things to sat in the summer. Very we'll.
They seized about 100000 pounds OF bad
fruit in New York in the PAST month or two.
"Huo up NY mlUu 70 10 Uark W ureS
princples-milk. What could he more
wholesome and nutritious than milk ? got
along lat and happy, and felt safe for Q short
time, but one day was seized with violent
vomiting and pains. and promptly notified
DR.. Edison. He had his attention called to
| several other cases of the same Kind. A
number OF people had the same symptoms
those Of poisoning. The milk was anAly zsd
/ and subjected to the microscopic test The
/ report Of the investigation WAs that the milk
L &a Ssfaiptat with n fungna we'll known n
science, but which Is generated in some un.
| known manner. and It's effect upon the sys-
| tenn is similar to that produced by an irri-
| tant mineral poison"
Well, several of us were nearly dead, and
for one made up my mind never to taste
/ milk again. When one finds out surely
what it is dangerous to eat or drink, be
should have the courage to abstain, no dii-
ference how much he may enjoy It "Wh
| ever Is proved dangerous I'll put down on
the total abstinence list" said to myself.
The next article that went down on my
little list was cheese. One day was epjoy-
ing = quiet lunch, and took up q paper to
| read while nibbled ut . bit Of cheese The
first thing that struck my eye WAS this head
line: d" Poisoned by Cneese-Several Cases
! of Tyrotoxicon or cheese Poisoning in Riv-
erton, n. j." Tyrotoxicon is the result Of
| fermentation. 1t Is caused by what old dairy.
men call " animsl heat" OF milk, which
must be removed by gradual cooling. II 1t
isn't and is too quickly made into cheese,
| being soliditied by the use Of potassium
nydrs;e and ether, 1t contains poison In
explanation l read after dropped the cheese.
| Ii 1t commonly contained steel needles, one
would be safe In eating it, for he could pick
/ them out like fish bones, but these needle
i crystals can easily be eaten. put cheese down
| on the prohibition list
! I'll have the doctors know that don't in
/ tend to run to them every time eat . lunch
| to ind whether Im poisoned and To pumped
| ary measure. 1t will save time, trouble and
! money to leave these dangerous foods outside
in the first place So put cheese on my list
and there's one thing III never suffer from
/ that's tyrotoxicon.
Now and then 1 had been eating little ice
| cream TO help me keep body and soul to-
| gether, but that too Is down on the list 1t
| has killed too many p opie TO bc trusted In
| the analysis OF the poisonous cream which
i nearly killed forty OF US New York patriots
on the nations natal day Professor La Fe,rs
l found no verdigris from copper vessels, nc
arsenic or other foreign poison, a. every ona
expected, but q poisonous fungi, = plan
which could be seen in various stages o
growth through the microscope. He call
them 100 spores The name Is an apt one
| When you cat the cream you'll II feel as thougI
| you not only had q zoo but Q whole circus
clowns, side shows, Punch and Judy and al
! In your internal regionA
My menu began to grow quite small, snt
l resolved to leave New York. They ar
| dying there at the rate OF /, 80 . week. That
one in every thousand The chances Of Lift
were growing too small: l came to Phils
| delphia, where / could live on nothing bu
the stah OF life-goOd old Quaker bread
| Now have bread on the list. This chrome
| yellow exposure put me out OF concelt o
bread, and I'm wondering just now what t.
ca. tor supper that won't send me to the ere,
maiOry.
l am three days nearer the willows fol
having read q joke about "practical sug
ges.ions for summer diet The funny
man who wrote it had the word " diet " se
| up " die it, " and suggested that Ii would 8p
pear easier to " die II " than " live 1t " JUS
! now.
What to cat is not the only thing that i.
worrying out this lingering life. A man is
just Is apt to be poisoned by his clothes Al
his food. Why, An editor OF Harpers Maya
| zine has complained to DR.. Edison, OF the
New York health department, about poisOn
Gus flannel suit OF clotheA The dye ran out
all over him and gave him the chilis and
what not? And the official chemist OF the
mercantile exchange WAS poisoned and given
q sick headache by the sweat.band in his
hat which anal ysis showed had compound
| OF lead in 1t. He extracted thirty seven
grains OF sulphate OF white lead from one hal
band He will probably get rich in conse
quence OF his discovery by forming q com
psny to buy up hats for mining purposes,
but that will not repay him for running the
risk OF dying.
i SOLuplexlOn WhI6Is pave Deeu proved &c
| contain arsenic, and 1t Is question wha,
/ isn't poisonous in the whole range OF food
and clothing, from chrome yellow bread tG
/ brass collar buttons and cheap hose.
| On II We could only live on love and
dress IN fig leaves. But 1t would probably
be Of no use. These too, are doubtless sdul-
tsrated. When We get sick, the doctors now
hand us q prescription labelled " Beware
of poison aud al dulteratsd drugs"
They might as we'll tell US this. They tel
us that b" bacilli swarm in almost everything
horrible phantoms OF disease lurk In the In
nocent glass of water or gambol In the spray
of the copper lined soda fountain. lce-crsam
claims its hosts OF victims, aud in everyth
We eat or drink science hnds droves OF saw.
age little bugs bent on the determination o
our species"
| And again Professor La Fetra OF New Yorl
cheerily tells US " II all the germs which Ar
taken In at each breath or with every mouth
full of water were to reach maturity, we coulC
| exist but short time"
| am OF the opinion that there is nothin6
sweet and pure and wholesome and unadul
teraled in this world but cofiius.
-Four smiles.
| Never take q sulky girl to ride in buggy